Stephen Dunstan
Registered User
This morning was a fairly typical one on Blackpool Prom in winter - rain holding off, but sea mist preventing longer range observation of the sea. A group of Great Crested Grebes and a few Common Scoter were lingering off my favoured shelter for seawatching.
Then just as I was about to pack up and head into work a 'first winter Cormorant' heading south close in proved to be a magnificent Great Northern Diver. They are pretty scarce in Lancs (formerly a description bird) but do enough seawatching and you'll get them in the end. However to get one as close as this bird was awesome, it was great to pick up some of the features in the Flight ID guide in terms of head and bill carriage and feet size.
I could have gone to Marbury to see the bird there, but when you get them on your own patch it makes it all worth it, doesn't it?
Stephen.
Then just as I was about to pack up and head into work a 'first winter Cormorant' heading south close in proved to be a magnificent Great Northern Diver. They are pretty scarce in Lancs (formerly a description bird) but do enough seawatching and you'll get them in the end. However to get one as close as this bird was awesome, it was great to pick up some of the features in the Flight ID guide in terms of head and bill carriage and feet size.
I could have gone to Marbury to see the bird there, but when you get them on your own patch it makes it all worth it, doesn't it?
Stephen.